Fast Facts

Conference Dates: May 26-29, 2011
Proposal Deadline: January 15, 2011
Registration Starts: January 5, 2011
Conference Website: http://kbjournal.org/2011conference
Conference Chair: David Blakesley (dblakes@clemson.edu)

The Executive Committee of the Kenneth Burke Society is pleased to announce that the Eighth Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society will be hosted by Clemson University at its Madren Conference Center in Clemson, South Carolina, from May 26 to May 29, 2011. The theme of the conference is "Burke, Rhetoric, and Social Change." The call for papers, slate of activities, speakers, and special guests, and additional conference highlights will be announced very soon. The Madren Conference Center (http://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/madren/conference/) is surrounded by beautiful Lake Hartwell and the Walker golf course, with easy access from Greenville/Spartanburg, Atlanta, Asheville, and Charlotte. The conference chair is David Blakesley (dblakes@clemson.edu). The conference is sponsored by the endowment for the Campbell Chair in Technical Communication at Clemson and the Kenneth Burke Society.

More information to follow!

The Writing Instructor is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue on “Disruptions in Professional Writing Pedagogy,” guest edited by Jennifer Bay and Patricia Sullivan. The issue features articles by Michele Simmons, Lisa McGrady, Tim Krause, Patricia Sullivan and Peter Fadde, Mary Godwin, Michael Salvo, Thomas Rickert, John Spartz, and Jennifer Bay and covers a variety of topics including the effects of emerging media technologies, new economies, and how we might incorporate innovative work configurations into classrooms. The issue is located at http://www.writinginstructor.com/pwdisruptions

Look for a 30th anniversary special issue of The Writing Instructor, edited by Shirley Rose, one of the founding editors of the journal, in 2011.

David J. Tietge's Rational Rhetoric: The Role of Science in Popular Discourse (Parlor Press) has been named the winner of JAC's Gary A. Olson Award for most outstanding book in rhetorical and cultural theory. -- 26 May 2010.